YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER ECOLOGICAL DATA TRUST

Registered charity 1075999 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ECOLOGICAL DATA TRUST, NORTH AND EAST YORKSHIRE, NORTH AND EAST YORKSHIRE ECOLOGICAL DATA CENTRE (NEYEDC)

Yorkshire & Humber Ecological Data Trust seeks to improve and inform environmental planning, sustainable development, land management and countryside stewardship in Yorkshire. It achieves this through the collation, management and dissemination of biodiversity and other environmental information.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PRODUCING A DATABASE OF ECOLOGICAL INFORMATION IN NORTH AND EAST YORKSHIRE AND(B) TO FACILITATE THE STUDY AND RESEARCH OF ECOLOGICAL MATTERS BY THE SUPPLY OF SUCH INFORMATION

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£404k

Latest spending

£363k

Registered

1999

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £41,209, resulting in total funds of £426,341. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme with no disclosed deficit.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Payments to trustees: Mr Simon Pickles, director of the Trust, was paid a gross salary of £46,003, employers NIC of £5,093 and employers pension contributions of £2,300 for the year.

“As director of the Trust, Mr Simon Pickles was paid a gross salary of £46,003, employers NIC of £5,093 and employers pension contributions of £2,300 for the year.” — page 16

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Mr Simon Pickles, director of the Trust, received salary, NIC, and pension contributions.

“As director of the Trust, Mr Simon Pickles was paid a gross salary of £46,003, employers NIC of £5,093 and employers pension contributions of £2,300 for the year.” — page 16

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Volunteers: 2
Government income: £261,093 — contracts £243,315 (8), grants £17,778 (4); 65% of the £403,950 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Volunteers: 1
Government income: £244,953 — contracts £231,211 (10), grants £13,742 (2); 62% of the £393,679 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

Volunteers: 1
Government income: £136,427 — contracts £54,845 (9), grants £81,582 (10); 51% of the £265,292 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

Yorkshire Water Services — “Yorkshire Water’s Biodiversity Enhancement Programme, to catalogue and survey important fungi-rich grassland sites” (source page)
National Lottery Heritage Fund — “NatureHack was NEYEDC’s ‘Resilient Heritage’ project supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund, running from 2018-2020.” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): linkedin

Trustees · trustee networks

JEFF LUNNchair
ANDREW BARKER
Helen Wright
PHILIP STANLEY BUTLER MA
Raymond Kirtley

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£404k	£363k
31/03/2024	£394k	£296k
31/03/2023	£265k	£252k
31/03/2022	£254k	£231k
31/03/2021	£317k	£231k

Common questions

Is YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER ECOLOGICAL DATA TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £41,209, resulting in total funds of £426,341. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme with no disclosed deficit. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER ECOLOGICAL DATA TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER ECOLOGICAL DATA TRUST as a grant recipient include THE GEORGE AND ESME POLLITZER CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE GEORGE AND ESME POLLITZER CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	FY2022	£5k
THE GEORGE AND ESME POLLITZER CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	FY2021	£5k	Grants and donations - Other material grants

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	14/03/2018	£97k	"NatureHack - Exploring new technological landscapes in monitoring nature"

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTS	2	£899k
JOHN SWIRE 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£53k
THE LIZ AND TERRY BRAMALL FOUNDATION	2	£22k
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION	1	£340k
JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATION	1	£75k
THE BARTLETT FOUNDATION	1	£30k
THE DASHLIGHT FOUNDATION	1	£25k
THE LYNDAL TREE FOUNDATION	1	£21k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORKSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST.

YORKSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST income £13.3m
YORKSHIRE FUNDERS income £77k
THE YORKSHIRE DALES SOCIETY income £156k
YORKSHIRE DALES RIVERS TRUST income £709k
THE YORKSHIRE DALES MILLENNIUM TRUST income £2.4m
EAST YORKSHIRE RIVERS TRUST income £147k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER ECOLOGICAL DATA TRUST	£404k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
YORKSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST FY2026	£13.3m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
YORKSHIRE FUNDERS FY2026	£77k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE YORKSHIRE DALES SOCIETY FY2025	£156k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
YORKSHIRE DALES RIVERS TRUST FY2025	£709k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE YORKSHIRE DALES MILLENNIUM TRUST FY2025	£2.4m	—	0	within	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.